Learn actionable ways to engage in authentic, nonexploitative storytelling practices with people with lived experience and expertise. 

Explore additional resources to learn how child welfare organizations can create equity in the workforce. 

Learn how child welfare organizations can create equity in the workforce. 

Explore additional resources to learn how incorporating voices of lived experience can help improve child welfare services. 

Learn strategies to address the mental health needs of children, young people, and families.

Use the template and instructions provided to develop parent partner program manuals.

Learn how child welfare professionals and family leaders can use the Parent Partner Program Navigator, a web-based, interactive resource that offers guidance for designing and implementing parent partner programs at child welfare agencies.

This handout is part of the series, “Perspectives on Normalcy: Videos and Discussion Questions.” It is designed to facilitate discussion about the issues raised in the video, “Kinship Adoption: You Get a Call, ‘Do You Want These Kids?’”

Hear about the challenges and experiences of an adoptive family and how they created belonging, healthy development, and normal experiences.

​​Explore various perspectives on how child welfare professionals can engage youth and young adults in child welfare practice.​ 

Hear a summary of the 2022 CWVE themes and learn strategies for moving forward with prioritizing lived expertise in child welfare. 

Set the groundwork for meaningful engagement of people with lived experience in the CFSR.

Explore ways to increase commitment to partnering with people with lived expertise in child welfare.

Explore additional resources on how to increase commitment to partnering with people with lived expertise in child welfare. 

Explore existing frameworks for protective capacities and protective factors and learn how to use them together for better prevention.